This is what I told the President of France

Mr. President, you have invited  the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at the ceremony of 70th anniversary of landing   union troops  in Normandy.

Whom will represent  the President Putin? The Russian people or all the peoples of the former USSR? It was clear  when France invited Putin to the 60th anniversary celebration. Then there was still some internal agreement in the CIS, where Russia usually presides. But today we are witnessing the Russian aggression against Georgia, Ukraine, threats against other former "fraternal republics."

 Mr. President, official statistics shows that on the eve of World War II, the number of  Russians in the Soviet Union was about 99 million, and other  nations totaled more than 70 million; but in recent years we have seen that  the Russians more and more privatize a victory, as contribution  of other peoples to it. They even stopped showing Soviet films, representing the victory as  an exclusive Russian conquest. Was Stalin  the Russian?  And majority in the leadership of the  USSR and the army was non-Russians.

One must clearly understand that the Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians , Kazakhs and other peoples shed blood on the  Russian, and not on their own land. It can be asked what would happen to other areas if they were captured by the Germans. History has no subjunctive mood. It is a fact that millions of other nationalities were killed in the vast Russian  areas and other countries. And they have a right to be represented today in Normandy.

I'd really like  Putin to  look into the eyes of each president of former Soviet republics, and in particular , the President of Ukraine, after the offense in this country. I would like that  the Russians see and realized that those whom they are now trying to humiliate,  represent the peoples who sacrificed the lives of their soldiers in this war.

P.S. This is the appeal  of Mehman Aliyev, the  Director of Turan Information Agency, to the  President of France, Francois Hollande, on  May 12 during a meeting in Baku with representatives of civil society in Azerbaijan.